Comments on: Why Shop Class Is Still Relevanthttps://blog.adafruit.com/2011/05/20/why-shop-class-is-still-relevant/
electronics, open source hardware, hacking and more...Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:44:22 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: K Scharfhttps://blog.adafruit.com/2011/05/20/why-shop-class-is-still-relevant/comment-page-1/#comment-20541
Fri, 20 May 2011 12:46:50 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/05/20/why-shop-class-is-still-relevant/#comment-20541If you read the comments to the article you posted you will see that the facts presented by the WSJ are distorted. High paying jobs in the factory? Just a bunch of BS, most of the comments were from people making less than $9/hr and no benefits. Guess the factories don’t want to pay what the skills are worth, maybe THAT’S the real reason jobs are not getting filled.
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Fri, 20 May 2011 12:11:04 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/05/20/why-shop-class-is-still-relevant/#comment-20540Last night I was building a cabinet out of plywood (to display an interactive art piece for a gallery night) and I thought back to how lucky I was to have shop classes when I was in school. It’s been sad to follow the story of the “tech” classes in my daughters’ schools where there is less and less actual “making” of things. Using saws and drills and basic hand tools are things that I’ll probably end up teaching my kids to do, since the schools don’t see much value in it.
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Fri, 20 May 2011 07:56:59 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/05/20/why-shop-class-is-still-relevant/#comment-20539Boy hammers nail, misses nail hits finger, Lawyer sues, school pays millions, insurance premium soars, shop class closed.
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Fri, 20 May 2011 06:35:30 +0000http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/05/20/why-shop-class-is-still-relevant/#comment-20537Talking to others I realize I must have gone to school right at the golden age of Jr. high metal shop class.

Mr. Cooper’s class did it all. Not just drill presses and lathes, we did sand casting with molten aluminum, electric arc and oxy-acetylene gas welding, even cutting steel with blow torches…sparks everywhere!

I can’t imagine a school today turning 15 year olds loose with those kinds of toys^H^H^H^Htools.